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Alessandro Zaion's avatar

Thanks for your work, incredible!

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Meyrick Chapman's avatar

Thank you Alessandro.

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Jan Nieuwenhuijs's avatar

Are you saying France used its “revaluation account” (fx + gold) to cover losses?

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Meyrick Chapman's avatar

No, I am saying that. Other NCB specifically announced write-downs. For instance, the Bundesbank announced: "Write-downs on financial assets and positions" of EUR -922 million. In many cases the write-down was offset by drawing from provisions. BdF did not announce write-downs but in the same section of its P&L stated "1.2.2 Net allocations to/reversals from the foreign currency revaluation reserve EUR-235 (mln)"

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Jan Nieuwenhuijs's avatar

Thanks. Accidentally I skimmed through the BdF’s report recently and didn’t quite understand some revaluation rules.

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Meyrick Chapman's avatar

'It's Complicated!'

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